Well, it looks like it’s official. Per the Army Times, that philandering former bigamist Brigade Commander, James H. Johnson III, won’t be doing any time. Looks like he came up with the $300,000 he was fined, and has apparently paid up. Full details are behind a pay wall, but the story’s “teaser” tells enough – [...]

This incident involves the case of Colonel James H. Johnson III. Colonel Johnson was of military royalty -- his father had commanded the 82nd Airborne Division. Then Col. Johnson ran afoul of any principle of military or even civilian law.

If you haven’t heard, Col. James H. Johnson III, the former commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, who we’ve discussed twice in the last few days was sentenced in his trial for forgery, fraud, lying and bigamy yesterday. He got a wrist slap of a $300,000 fine for his plea of guilty to [...]

Several of you have been sending us links about Colonel James H. Johnson III, the former commander of the Herd (the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team) and his on-going trial for forgery, fraud, lying and bigamy that we discussed last week. But yesterday, he was found guilty of some of the charges, while others had [...]

Additional charges against the former head of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Col. James H. Johnson III, were dismissed Monday, a day after he pleaded guilty to 15 specifications, including bigamy, adultery and fraud.

Taking command of the lauded 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team seemed like the latest stop in Col. James H. Johnson III's rise. The son of a lieutenant general, Johnson was expected to someday wear stars himself.

Greg sends us a link to the Army Times which tells the story of the former commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Col. James H. Johnson III who has been charged by the Army with forgery, fraud, lying and bigamy; The woman who was his sweetheart while he was a cadet at West [...]

The court-martial of Col.
James Johnson III, once the high-flying commander of the 173 rd
Airborne Brigade, is scheduled to begin next
week in Germany. (His wife helpfully gave the investigatory report to the Fayetteville
Observer.)
He faces 27 charges of false official statements, forgery,
fraud, conduct unbecoming, adultery and
such. Show More Summary

The allegation
is that the commander, JHJ III, now ousted, was making time with the Iraqi wife
of his cultural advisor, and wound up lying on his travel records.
No, I am not beating
up on the
airborne. They doing it to themselves.

The Army has formally suspended Col. James H. Johnson III as commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which has about 3,300 Soldiers in Italy and Germany. The Army took action Feb. 17, according to Col. Bryan Hilferty, chief of public affairs for U.S. Army Europe. No one else has been suspended or relieved in connection with Johnson's case, he said.